Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Conan O'Brien

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.
Conan O'Brien

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
Jeff Foxworthy

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Tse-Tung

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
Paula Abdul

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon